1.  For much of the past century, they fell to loggers, developers and charcoal makers, who leveled vast stands of buttonwood.

2.  It is a place where gleaming silver petrochemical plants rise out of vast stands of sugar cane like Oz out of the poppy fields.

3.  That VAST stands for Visual Audio Sensory Theater seems nothing if not audacious.

4.  On Wednesday, a typical day at Belmont, the vast stands were mostly empty.